|
Heavy Equipment Operator Salary
QUESTION:And don't think lawyers get all the money..........the overhead of
running an office would astound you. Law School, depending upon the
school you attend would probably be between $100,000 - $250,000.00.
That would be tuition. That would not include the other couple of
thousand a year for the books and supplies.
ANSWER: Yeah, but hang on a sec (and feel free to point out where I'm wrong in my
thinking here) - ALL businesses have to consider that: Over head for
rent, salaries, insurance, inventory, etc, etc.
I mean, for $250 an hour, you can rent an entire backhoe with an
experienced operator to dig out a pool, run a trench for a gas line,
excavate a septic pit, etc. (considering a new backhoe will cost the
contracting company around $75,000 - $150,000 CDN)
For $15 an hour, you can get a painter
For $30 an hour, you can get a decent handy man to put up a wall or
repair a ceiling
For $50 an hour, you can get an appliance repair man in to re-braze(sp?)
the copper compressor lines in your fridge after your two year old throws
a bowling ball into the back of it.
For $50 an hour, you can get a relatively talented graphic designer to
redesign your corporate logo, brochures and signage
All of these examples above need years of experience, years of training,
in many cases tens of thousands of dollars in equipment that is
constantly being updated, etc.
So on and so forth. So I'm sorry, but I don't buy this "$250 an hour for
a lawyer is needed to run the office" - We all have to do it and we're
not necessarily in a self-perpetuating business (i.e. in my business, if
I try to drag a situation out just to get more billable hours, I get
fired for being incompetant - A lawyer *could* suggest mediation, for
example, to resolve a nasty divorce so both parties bank accounts aren't
turned into pure vacuum, but they rarely do that.
I'm sorry, but I've just seen far, far too many divorces where BOTH
parties ended up losing more to the lawyers than they lost to their
courtroom 'opponent'.
With all due respect to some of the nice lawyers in the world, but there
is a good reason for why there are so many evil lawyer jokes out there
and why the profession is looked upon with disdain by the general public.
I mean, both the US Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and
Freedoms guarantees the right to a fair trial, but everyone knows that
you get a more "fair" trial only when you've got more money to throw at a
lawyer.
I'd like to see someone try to tell me ***honestly*** that lawyers -
especially family law ones - aren't one of the greatest drains on
monetary resources in North America when it comes to any form of intra-
family dispute.
|
|
|
|
